The Extraordinary Tale of…

A mysterious masked convict, believed to be a threat to the French throne

1703 THE ‘MAN IN THE IRON MASK’ DIES IN PRISON

The elusive political prisoner passed away on 19 November 1703, without anyone ever knowing his true identity

A LOT ON HIS PLATE?

One popular myth is that the Man in the Iron Mask wrote messages to the outside world on his crockery, which he then threw out of his cell window. The prison governor Saint-Mars did indeed complain of such instances in a letter dated 1692, but the culprit was a different man entirely - an imprisoned Protestant minister named Salves.

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